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Chickenwarlord

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Solid, classic trance

Everything here is done fairly well. This track has a classic feel in both a good and a bad way.
The good: Highly reminiscent of other good trance tracks. Mastering and production are solid. The sounds work together.
The bad: There's nothing to differentiate it from other trance tracks. The beat is incredibly standard with little variation. Melodic rhythm does nothing to stick out and grab attention.

PrEmoEffect responds:

I've been working with developing new types of leads that I can use. I was never terribly enthralled by the typical trance saw lead. I'm going more for the distortion plucks. I've usually been much better with basses than leads, so that's something I'm trying hard to work on.

Would be better with natural vocals

The auto-tuning is ruining your vocals, which are well within the limits of a good error margin. Seriously, the electronically aided scooping is ruining the nice backing ambience you're creating.
Have more faith in your own voice.

Could use some polish

Most of this sounds pretty empty. I feel like fleshing out everything would help keep interest through such a long track.
Dynamics could really help build tension or provide variation for the listener.
For what is there, it's pretty soft and would benefit from some switch in pacing. Melody is nice and decently catchy. When the drums drop out and come in, it's very noticeable in a bad way.

Pitchbends on a piano patch? Really?

Whoa, reverb everywhere. Sounds like a saloon. Also: pitchbends on a piano patch? Just doesn't really work at all...
This just seems like a really plain import of a midi. Not even a well mastered one either.

DrMackFoxx responds:

Hmmmm... I see. I think you may have misheard things considerably. There is no pitch-bending on the Piano patches. For example, at 0:32 and 0:39, what you are hearing are two sets of a series of two 32nd notes on two octaves, followed immediately by, more or less, a 7/16th note. While at 0:55, the Strings patch backing up the lead piano does have pitch-bending, while the piano does not. These things seemed like good ideas to try and make this remake more true to the original.

I'm well aware that you can't do warbling notes and whatnot on a piano in real life and the effect certainly does not sound good through MIDIs, either. Although you can purposely have a piano out of tune if it works with the song you are putting together. I would admit this rearrangement was not entirely successful. Still sounded good enough to post, though.

Sorry this track wasn't what you were looking for or expecting. :shrugs shoulders:

Could drop some of the highs

Lead is a bit fat for my tastes and your arpeggio background from 1:20-2:00 is a bit... screechy.
Break from 2:00-2:45 is either a bit too sparse for too long or has ridiculously bright high pitched stuff which is not pleasant to my ears.
This really isn't bad, just some things which grate against me (I know, I suffer from the bright high-pitched issue all the time).

DJoe responds:

lol its supposed to be high pitch at points mate, not everyones taste :)

Minimalist in a bad way

Your drums are WAY to much towards the front of your mix. They're causing my speakers to have issues. The punchiness is just too much.
There is not a whole lot going on melodically, nothing to hook anyone in with. I think it's a bit too minimalistic to really work. There are some good background ideas, just work on creating a better foreground.

superuberinsaneausm responds:

the reason it seems so minimalistic is because a friend of mine is going to rap/sing over it, so that may answer your questions about the melodic work
as far as the mastering of the track goes it sounds fine on my end but i could see how the drum section could be a pit punchy considering i didnt EQ them properly, thanks for the review.

Good mood setter

The leads might be a little on the high side for a good shopping/market track in the beginning. Good job with using the smooth jazz harmonies in the beginning. A little more presence in the bass would be cool too.

Pleasant, but not groundbreaking

Definitely feeling the Contra-style with the early melody. It tends to drag a bit in the slower arpeggio/melodic sections due to multiple repetitions... Lots of the themes are repeated one time too many for my ears and sense of progression.

NickPerrin responds:

Fair enough, although I'm not quite sure what you mean in regards to "repeated one time too many," as after the intro any given section only repeats once.
Thanks for the review!

A good springboard

That pitchbend on the secondary layering synth is offputting to me.
Very minimalist with not a lot of anything to grab the attention. The wobbles aren't bad but it's too short to develop anything outside of the wobbles. What makes dubstep good is the way wobble is balanced with interesting melodic or rhythmic sections in a give and take manner. Right now, all you have is wobble and a little percussion.
This is a good first attempt or first draft. Use this as a springboard to add more original melodic sections to be broken up by the wobbles.

Swings moods a bit abruptly

Solid composition and some nice use of dynamics and subtle left hand work. But sometimes the transitions between sections seem a bit abrupt.
Really, I have to grasp at straws to find anything worth seriously criticizing here. I like how you have fun with changing stresses in measures.

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